Hello @mad ! I'm migrating (well... redeveloping) my website from Concrete5 to Automad, and fact is, the new blocks are just awesome ! There might just be some improvements to do to make them almost perfect. For instance, my site is kind of a wiki and some pages can have a very (VERY) long text content. I don't know if there is another, simpler way yet but, as each paragraph is separated by a block instance, if I want to delete and entire section from the page, I have to click on each paragraph's right menu and then double click on the cross icon to delete it. Of course, for deletin the entire content section, I can go in the page's markdown file and do it manualy, but if I need to delete a long portion of text in the middle, with several paragraphs, can become kind of painful. And I could use the markdown type of block for long sections, too, but I feel bad about it, because it would be like not using the blocks as they are intended to be used. Would be a shame. Is there an easy way I missed to delete several blocks instances at once ? If not, it could be a very handy (and quite essential, if you ask me) addition to this feature ! I saw the option to add classes, or ID, on portions of text, etc, but, as for using it, I find that it can be very tricky to use, especialy to change previously added classes (even using the block inspector). In fact, in most cases, I just want to add a custom class on the entire block, like, for a headline, directly on the <hn> tag, instead of highlighting the content and putting that custom class on a child selector inside. Is there already a way to do that ? If not, an option to add a class/id on the element (maybe by adding a block's option on the right menu), would be a good feature as well ! Thank you for your awesome work. I keep loving Automad more and more at each update.

Blocks manipulation (mass deletion, block classes)

Graphuste

Hello @mad !

I'm migrating (well... redeveloping) my website from Concrete5 to Automad, and fact is, the new blocks are just awesome ! There might just be some improvements to do to make them almost perfect.

For instance, my site is kind of a wiki and some pages can have a very (VERY) long text content. I don't know if there is another, simpler way yet but, as each paragraph is separated by a block instance, if I want to delete and entire section from the page, I have to click on each paragraph's right menu and then double click on the cross icon to delete it. Of course, for deletin the entire content section, I can go in the page's markdown file and do it manualy, but if I need to delete a long portion of text in the middle, with several paragraphs, can become kind of painful. And I could use the markdown type of block for long sections, too, but I feel bad about it, because it would be like not using the blocks as they are intended to be used. Would be a shame.
Is there an easy way I missed to delete several blocks instances at once ? If not, it could be a very handy (and quite essential, if you ask me) addition to this feature !
I saw the option to add classes, or ID, on portions of text, etc, but, as for using it, I find that it can be very tricky to use, especialy to change previously added classes (even using the block inspector). In fact, in most cases, I just want to add a custom class on the entire block, like, for a headline, directly on the <hn> tag, instead of highlighting the content and putting that custom class on a child selector inside. Is there already a way to do that ? If not, an option to add a class/id on the element (maybe by adding a block's option on the right menu), would be a good feature as well !

Thank you for your awesome work. I keep loving Automad more and more at each update.

mad

Graphuste Hi there! Thanks for the feedback! Regarding your first point, it is possible to select multiple blocks at once by either extending the text selection up or down to other blocks using SHIFT-Arrow or the mouse or by click somewhere on the edge of a block and drag to open a selection area. The latter one is a bit tricky and will be improved with the next releases. Once you have some blocks selected you can delete them with backspace. Also copy and paste can by used then.

Graphuste

Hi @mad ! Thanks for your answer, it helped me a lot for with multiple blocks.

While I'm on blocks, I noticed a little issue with headings ID generation on blocks. If I get it well, when inserting a simple heading block (like a H2), the created block receive its own ID based on its content. I assume it's done so to be used later, like with the table of contents (TOC) block ?
The issue with that generated ID is that if, for some reason 2 headings in the page are the same, the ID's are the same too, making 2 elements with the same ID. On one hand, it causes w3c validation issues, and on the other hand, I guess it can break the functions based on unique IDs (like TOC).
I assume it's not the desired behavior. 😃 Maybe you'll want to look into this.

mad

Graphuste Thanks for reporting this. This is indeed not the desired behaviour.

Graphuste

mad Glad to help, at my very low level.
Again your CMS and template language are a pleasure to use, especially for people like me with only very basic understanding of PHP, so If I can contribute a little to thank you for this, that's my pleasure.

mad

Graphuste 😊